Description: The panel will discuss the growing public sense of urgency to deal with a worsening crisis in the ability of millions of Americans to obtain quality health care that is also affordable. This session focuses on Medicaid issues, the Kennedy bill, and the impact on small businesses to require employers to purchase health insurance for their employees and dependents. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This 1978 session focused on regulatory considerations in Group Health Insurance focused on the following questions: 1. What is the impact of National Health Insurance and Federal Hospital Cost Control? 2. What is the impact of non-discrimination legislation and regulation? 3. What is the impact of recent OASDI financing changes and changes in mandatory retirement age? 4. What is the future of multi-employer trusts and self-insurance?

Description: This 1978 panel discussion is about personal casualty lines on a group basis. It focused on: 1. The traditional approaches of group life and health versus individual policies for fire and casualty 2. Problems in product design and underwriting, and 3. The impact of federal income tax laws. 4. Regulatory constraints. The discussions were primarily on personal automobile insurance.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the effect of recent changes in tax structures on employee benefits - their value to employees, limitations on deductibility by employers, taxability to employees, and the direction of likely future changes. Will the continued emphasis on additional revenue generation result in a shift in employer emphasis toward additional cash compensation versus employee benefits?

Description: This discussion looks at regulation - specifically as it relates to Group Insurance and Individual Health Insurance. Since insurance is principally a state issue, the industry is faced with a multiplicity of regulatory responses. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.